| 单词 | old daddy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasold daddy b. A person or institution irreverently likened to a father, esp. in being old-fashioned, excessively paternalistic, or controlling. Frequently in old daddy. ΚΠ 1647 Mercurius Melancholicus 11–19 Dec. 94 Their Daddyes will perhaps a twelve-moneth hence send down their disjoyned fighting Creatures a moneths pay; and so farewell and be hang'd. 1682 J. Phillips Conf. Observator & Heraclitus 12 He opposes the Priviledges of his Enthusiastick Parliament, to the Royalties of Holy Daddy. 1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 12 Dec. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1396 All day long afraid of old daddy in England. 1831 J. Knowles Life & Writings H. Fuseli I. xiii. 364 [Quoting Fuseli] Two of the cleverest artists in their way, I believe, in Europe, but in every thing else, two old daddies. 1892 Spectator 24 Dec. 927/2 In other respects, he is an Old Daddy! 1912 Rotarian Oct. 21/2 The solemn old daddies who used to make publicity could not get a hearing. 1961 Independent-Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 10 Dec. c2/1 I'll bet those old daddies who have headed the AAU and NCAA for a dozen decades spun their wheelchairs at a dizzy pace..when they caught the action. < as lemmas |
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